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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
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